Sentence examples for a formative incident from inspiring English sources
The film gets going with a formative incident in both the director's life and his country's: powerful black-and-white film of the events surrounding Mohandas Gandhi's assassination.
Since "Flannery" must sometimes grasp at straws, it begins by placing great importance on a formative childhood incident: the filming of a 1932 Pathé newsreel titled "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" and showing little Mary Flannery O'Connor with an early feathered companion.
Why do you want to be in a band?" In the concert, U2 performs amid video that reflects some of the formative incidents of Bono's adolescence, including the political violence that ravaged Ireland in the 1970s and the death of his mother when the singer was 14.
He described as formative an incident in which he claimed CIA operatives were attempting to recruit a Swiss banker to obtain secret banking information.
It was a formative experience.
Most found it a formative experience.
It was a formative moment.
It was a formative time for me.
In fact, it was a formative experience.
Did you have a formative viewing experience?
That was certainly a formative experience".
